Hope is a waking dream.
From Aristotle
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
The secret to humor is surprise.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
The law is reason, free from passion.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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